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03.12.09Google Voice: A New Tool For Nonprofits But Not So Great for Community VoicemailUPDATE (3/14/2009 1:07 AM EDT): Check out the blog post from Community Voice Mail addressing my concerns. Oddly, the blogger there claims to have left comments here but I don't see anything. Just so you all know, I don't moderate comments except if you put more than one external HTML link in your comment as that's a sign you may be a spammer. On to the original article... Launched today, Google Voice is the newest update to Grandcentral, a service I've used since near its inception. It generates a universal phone number that ties together various services such as all ...
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11.09.08Daily Kos Reports on Its Tech InfrastuctureDaily Kos unveiled their new server infrastructure just recently: Hardware is part of the solution, Bingham says. "To handle the traffic better, we moved to a cluster of six quad core Xeons with 8GB RAM for webheads that all boot off a central NFS (Network File System) root, with the capability of adding more webheads as needed," he said. Daily Kos also added two 16GB eight-core Xeons and a 6×73GB RAID-10 array for database files running a MySQL master/slave setup [...] Many database-driven sites facing scalability challenges have looked to the distributed caching system memcached, which helps speed dynamic web applications. Bingham ...
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09.16.07The Oprah Effect on nonprofitsOriginal photo by Alan Light Oprah Winfrey did a special on philanthropy and giving on September 4th of this year. Highlights were a visit from Bill Clinton hawking his new book appropiately entitled Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World and Andrew Agassi discussing his Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy. Also mentioned were Common Cents and Kiva. Below is a chart of the spike in traffic that resulted from the Oprah effect. clintonfoundation.org and kiva.org were well-positioned to take advantage of the Oprah effect. Unfortunately, commoncents.org and the Andrew Agassi College Preparatory Academy don't register high enough on compete.com's ...
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09.14.07Uncharted Technologies for Nonprofits, Part II've decided to write about uncharted and unblogged (in the nptech world that is) technologies today that can be used in the nonprofit sector. I'm getting tired of writing about social networking. You know it's played out when you see videos like this: Love them Gym Class Heroes though... Here are new technologies that haven't been explored nearly enough by nonprofit bloggers in the last few months and part of the reason for that is that it's not about social networking, a technology that is seemingly easy to blog about since the technical innards are usually hidden behind some friends list. ...
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